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Further Education Workforce 2023/2024

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Provides data on FE workforce size, composition, and vacancies. Shows stable workforce numbers but continued recruitment challenges....
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Teacher Workforce: Secondary and Further Education

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Evaluates whether government spending is effectively addressing teacher shortages across schools and FE. Highlights ongoing recruitment and retention challenges, including pay disparities and weak workforce planning....
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Teacher Workforce: Secondary and Further Education

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This comprehensive NAO report provides a full assessment of teacher recruitment and retention challenges across both secondary schools and further education colleges. It highlights ongoing recruitment and retention challenges, including pay disparities and weak workforce planning. The report documents that the government budgeted £700 million in 2024-25 for teacher recruitment...
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Education Workforce Summary

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This summary report synthesises findings across early years, school support staff, FE teachers, and school teachers. It identifies shared challenges including pay competitiveness and career progression, with FE teacher pay highlighted as having fallen rapidly in recent years....
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Teacher recruitment, training and retention

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This is a set of publications related to the Education Committee’s investigation into teacher recruitment, training and retention (2023-2025). The Committee reviewed comprehensive evidence related to the challenges in training and securing a stable teaching profession and the impacts on pupils of the current challenges. The publications include oral and...
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Teacher recruitment and retention in England data dashboard

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This interactive data dashboard provides information on teacher recruitment and retention challenges and contains data up to the 2023/24 academic year. It allows the user to navigate data to examine the impacts of teacher shortages on pupils and schools, focusing on regional differences, subjects and school types. Its latest updates...
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Further Education Workforce 2022/2023

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Provides data on FE workforce size, composition, and vacancies. Shows stable workforce numbers but continued recruitment challenges....
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Use of Supply Teachers in Schools. Research Report

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This comprehensive research examines the supply teacher market in primary, secondary and special schools following the pandemic surge in supply teaching demand. Key findings show supply teacher demographics closely mirror the qualified teaching workforce, increased reliance on supply teachers across all school settings particularly since 2020/21, and concerns about quality...
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Six charts that explain the state of the teaching workforce in England

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This EPI analysis presents six key data visualisations illustrating teacher supply trends including recruitment shortfalls, retention patterns by experience level, regional variations in teacher supply, and the relationship between teacher quality and school disadvantage. The report highlights that retention of early-career teachers has fallen since the previous year but remains...
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FE Teacher Recruitment and the Landscape of FE

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The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) report highlights a critical recruitment and retention crisis in the further education sector, particularly for technical and vocational roles. It advocates for a national workforce strategy that supports "dual professionals" by scaling successful initiatives and enhancing career-long support to ensure a resilient, future-ready education...
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